Midnight - Cleveland Metal (Official Video)

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Cleveland’s favorite filth metal practitioners, MIDNIGHT, will unleash Steel, Rust And Disgust on May 23rd via Metal Blade Records.

One-man-army, Athenar, has been spewing out an ungodly racket, dropping countless demos, splits, EPs, and LPs and ultimately slaying the metal/punk underground with his own addictive brand of lust, grime, and sleaze for over two decades. The Steel, Rust And Disgust collective follows last year’s chart topping Hellish Expectations full-length and features ten unique cover tracks alongside two new cuts.

Athenar comments, “The idea to record an album of all cover jams with a certain theme is nothing quite new. The original title for this album was gonna be Throw Ups as an homage to the David Bowie’s Pin Ups album, also of covers. Although Throw Ups is only two syllables and I need six. I guess I could've called it Throw Downs Throw Outs Throw Ups, but that would be just fucking stupid.

“I just wanted to record some songs by bands who shared the same sights, sounds, and sewage of my region of birth,” he continues. “Some of these tunes you may have heard, some you may have not. So please, do yourself a favor and check out the original versions... if you want to transform into a total fucking slimebag that is!”

In advance of the record’s official release, today MIDNIGHT presents the original track, “Cleveland Metal.” Notes Athenar, “‘Cleveland’ and ‘metal.’ Those two words flow together like molten steel. This title was directly taken from a compilation album of the same name released in 1983 on Clubside Records, pre Auburn Records. The song was written as an erotic love letter to the cursed city whence I was thrusted upon and its fellow inhabitants of subhumans.”

LYRICS:
Straight from the rustbelt of iron and steel
Rising from rivers on fire
The sound of pounding your head is so real
Leather and spikes our attire

Cleveland metal - our veins bleed mercury
Cleveland metal - just cut us and see

Northcoast slime west side trash
The hellpits of the east
Like a plague spreads throughout the world
You'll never tame this beast

Cleveland metal - we need it heavy as lead
Cleveland metal - the needle's in the red

Maximum destruction tied to the trax
Beyond the iron walls the iron beast will attack